One person.
Just begun.
A founder, a thesis, an incorporation in progress. Nothing more, today.
My mother left Delhi for Kerala three summers ago because the heat she had lived in for forty years stopped being something her body would negotiate with. I have a daughter. I am not going to let her grow up in the city my mother had to leave. That is the founding moment of wonarth. Everything else is consequence.
I am Prashant Kumar Nair, an Advocate-on-Record at the Supreme Court of India. wonarth is a separate non-profit venture from my legal practice and is not a feeder for it.
The name reads on three layers: won-earth (Earth as something to be won back), one-earth (singular shared planet), and one-arth, where arth in Sanskrit means purpose, meaning, wealth, one of the four purusharthas. The third reading is the spine.
One of the four purusharthas
wonarth restores.
Land, community, and dignity.
The constitutional anchor of wonarth has always been Article 21 of the Constitution of India: the right to life with dignity, of which the courts have recognised livelihood, a healthful environment, and cultural life as facets. So the Foundation’s three pillars read as three registers of one purpose: the restoration of land, the gathering of community, and the restoration of dignity in work, with the arts kept close as quiet therapeutic practice. The third register will be carried by a Legal Justice Wing in preparation, a support helpline, and a forthcoming public directory of adjudicated defaults: all pro bono, all non-solicitation, all in the public interest.
What is filed.
What is not yet.
Section 8 incorporation is in process. PAN, TAN, and a current account follow incorporation. Filings under Section 12A and Section 80G of the Income Tax Act 1961 will follow incorporation. We do not currently accept any contributions, domestic or foreign. FCRA registration has not been filed.
The first plantation drive will happen only after incorporation, MoUs with land partners, species sourcing, and a documented budget. Until that work is published, no specific outcome is being represented.
Be told when we begin.
If you would like an email when wonarth is incorporated and the first work begins, write to hello@wonarth.com.